Artefact ID | 692 |
TM ID | TM 34136 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 15 (al-Baǧawāt) | Class | Textual |
Material | Plaster |
Writing medium | Dipinto, Graffito |
Text content | Subliterary |
Language | Greek |
Description | I.Oasis p. 63 no. 2; SEG XXXVIII 1698: Invocation. On the left side of the west wall, partly inscribed, partly painted in red, three lines of a text added on top of I.Oasis p. 62-63 no. 1 in much smaller letters. After an initial abbreviated nomen sacrum with staurogram (ϲ⳨oϲ) isolated on l. 1 comes a usual funerary formula followed by an allusion to Luke 23.42. The reading of the last line was corrected by Cauderlier 1989: 226. |
Selection criteria | Subliterary genre (Liturgical), Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy, Nomina sacra, Biblical quote or paraphrase |
Date from | 350 |
Date to | 499 |
Dating criteria | The text shares many similarities with I.Oasis p. 62-63 no. 1 in hand, position and funerary content pointing to an early date. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | Chapel 71 is of a "square domed type" (type 4, Fakhry 1951: 20) |
Accession number | Al-Baǧawāt, in situ (Chapel no. 71 / Roquet, Ghica no. 1.06) |